A small amount of on-chip analog-test hardware offers big payoffs when you are dealing with high-speed serial interfaces. As part of the serial-interface IP (intellectual property) or of an IP wrapper ...

A PC’s serial port provides signal lines that you can use to expand the number of input signals. With some additional circuitry tied to these lines, you can use the port to test digital TTL ...

High-speed-digital serial I/O links and DDR memory interfaces are presenting significant measurement challenges as fourth-generation standards emerge. As signals travel at ever higher speeds over ...

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With the arrival of third-generation serial standards, many of the rules around debug/verification and characterization/compliance test are changing. Here are some ...

The storage industry this year began widespread implementation of serial-based technologies to replace parallel physical-interface standards (AT bus attachment, or ATA, and Small Computer Systems ...